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‘Democracy, Disinformation and Kindness’

‘Democracy, Disinformation and Kindness’

Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became leader of the Labour Party and the NZ Prime Minister in 2017. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s  Harvard commencement speech, in full. Warning Long read. 3011 words. **Illustrations added by BFD Editor Juana Atkins. E oku manukura, nga pou haemata o te

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‘Holding Fast to What Is Good’

‘Holding Fast to What Is Good’

Veronika Winkels mercatornet.com Veronika Winkels is married with four young children. She majored in History and History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne before becoming a freelance writer, published poet, and sometimes-printmaker. Lately she spends more of her time child-wrangling. She is the founding Editor of

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Musk to Clean the Twitter Sewer

Musk to Clean the Twitter Sewer

As you will know, Elon Musk is in the process of buying Twitter. This naturally has caused panic in the Titterverse. Blaze Media explains: During a presentation to woo investors, Elon Musk laid out his plans for what actions he intends on implementing when he takes over Twitter. Musk reportedly

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's been given an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She used her speech to rally against disinformation, and called on social media giants to limit its spread by 'recognising their power and to acting on it'. pic.twitter.com/4HBQeb2OWv — Jason Walls (@Jasonwalls92)

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Transcript (includes speeches from ACT, Labour and Green MPs). With support from just ACT and National, the Education and Training (Freedom of Expression) Amendment Bill was defeated. https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/mp-simon-o-connor-a-fine-speech-about-free-speech National MP Simon O’Connor is dead right – the Left are trying to shut down free speech

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Boss Plod Has No Sense of Humour

Boss Plod Has No Sense of Humour

As Lauren Southern points out in her book, Barbarians, the Long March through the Institutions is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a conspiracy fact. We know it for a fact because Marxist theorists in the late 60s told us what they were going to do, and how. They planned

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The Nonces Are Taking over the Schools

The Nonces Are Taking over the Schools

One of the most powerful tools of the Communists was denunciation. Survivors describe the process as “terrifying”. Imagine: mobs of your neighbours, co-workers, even friends and family, screaming abuse, spitting on you, beating you. Many were killed by the unhinged mobs. Whole populations lived in terror of denunciation: in communist

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How Elon Musk Can Solve His Pseudonym Dilemma

How Elon Musk Can Solve His Pseudonym Dilemma

Peter Jacobsen fee.org Peter Jacobsen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ottawa University and the Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University, and obtained his BS from Southeast Missouri State University. His research interest

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Is Netflix Just the First to Crack?

Is Netflix Just the First to Crack?

In a key scene in Citizen Kane, an outraged financial adviser warns Kane that his recently-purchased newspaper lost a million dollars in the last year. Kane replies mirthfully that he expects to lose a million next year, too. “At the rate of a million a year we’ll have to

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Govt Funded Group Use 1984 as an Instruction Manual

Govt Funded Group Use 1984 as an Instruction Manual

The Looking Glass thelookingglass.co.nz This article was first published at The Looking Glass and is republished here with permission. Warning Long Read. 3307 words. ‘Dangerous speech’, especially speech from those opposed to or negatively affected by the Government’s covid response who protested at Parliament earlier this year,

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The Truth About the Disinformation Board Leader

The Truth About the Disinformation Board Leader

Joseph Vazquez newsbusters.org Joseph is the MRC Assistant Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2018. In June 2019, he completed an exclusive fellowship with the Hertog Foundation, where he participated in

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Netflix Stands up for Free Speech

Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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No Place for Jokes in This Election

No Place for Jokes in This Election

When you live, as we do, in a Clown World, the line between satire and reality is hopelessly blurred. We need only read a Babylon Bee article, and watch it become actual news within the week, to know that. Just to drive the point home, “fact checkers” have felt it

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Justice Thomas Key Player in Censorship Fight

Justice Thomas Key Player in Censorship Fight

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practising attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games and spending time with her cats. All eyes will be on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas now that the Texas

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A New Opportunity for Demagogues to Destroy Freedoms

Jose Nino mises.org Jose Nino is a freelance writer based in Austin, Texas. Politicians thoroughly enjoy times of war. Periods of bellicosity are when the most power-hungry members of the political class indulge in their most depraved political fantasies. The Russo-Ukrainian War has been no exception to this trend.

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Predictive AI Makes You a Target

Predictive AI Makes You a Target

John W. Whitehead Nisha Whitehead rutherford.org Constitutional attorney and author John W Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His books Battlefield America: The War on the American People and A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State are available at www.amazon.com. Warning Long

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